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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Neil switches gears tomorrow morning or tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Afternoon as he hosts The Fork Report from two to
five pm.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Oh yeah, and on that note, we are doing my
birthday show tomorrow live at Disconso Garden, not Wisconsin, now
you got me doing it? Yeah, Disconso Restaurant in La
not there, Orange County one, and I think there might
be some room. We have a small area for just us,
little VIP area, but check in on that and we'll
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sign a jumdar from the Food Network. My good buddy's
going to join us. Monica Rodriguez, a councilwoman, Monica Rodriguez
from the seventh District, is coming out some buddies, some surprises.
Also will be giving away some stuff and compliment mentory
advertisers and specials and all this stuff. So if you're interested,
just email RSVP at Desconzo Restaurant dot com your name
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and the people in your party.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
All right, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Now let's get right into Foody Friday and start with
one of my favorite foods and one of my.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Favorite diseases all combined together.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
French fries and the beatas sugars and diabetes. Diabetes. So
connect the two because I have yet to hear this.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, this is that's the man always trying to bring
us down. There was a study that was just published
on Wednesday the journal BMJ, and they are look, they
were doing a study about potatoes in general and their
tie into diabetes and the diabetes the.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Risk of diabetes.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So the authors went through they looked at diets more
than two hundred thousand adults in the US, a bunch
of questionnaires, all this, and the authors looked at which
people developed type two diabetes high blood sugars. We all
know what that is. And they found that eating three
weekly servings of French fries was associated with a twenty percent,
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twenty freaking percent increase in risk of getting type two diabetes.
But if you if you did boiled potatoes, baked potatoes,
mashed potatoes didn't link. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I love those studies because it's you know, connecting the
causuality together.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You know, for example, let's say people.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
That go to Magic Mountain right and they stop by
the nearest McDonald's.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So therefore, people that go to amusement.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Parks are more likely to eat French fries than not.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yes, it does not mean causality, I guess it could
be a couinky dink, yes, two.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Hundred thousand people.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It brings it up study, especially when you're comparing it
to other potatoes. Now, I like potatoes in all forms.
Bring them in all forms, so I will continue to.
If you're quite you can actually hear Shannon Fahren turn
off the radio when you hear anything bad about French fries.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I love French fries too.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I mean, they are by far the best way to
eat potatoes.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Oh, they're fantastic. They're magical. Now I love other forms.
One of the greatest things in the whole white world
is Melissa's produce is fantastic. By the way, they have
baby yellow Dutch potatoes, and they, to my knowledge, they're
the only ones that have them. And you put a
little olive oil and a little salt and pepper on those,
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and you can grill them like that. But they are
so pillowy and buttery and lovely just on their own.
Those to me could beat out French fries.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
But you don't get the we don't get the crispy outside,
don't they kind of it's weird. It's not the French.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
You get a snap on them, like a good hot dog.
And they but it really is like pretty magical. If
I could get those in a box with a burger,
I'd eat that. But because everything we love sucks, why
didn't God make the stuff that tastes good be good
for you? That is a real problem. That's my only
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theological issue. Yeah, you know, can I get with the art? Well,
here's the theory.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Here's a theological question, and that is Adam and Eve.
Or it's not even a hypothetical. I'll make a religious statement.
You know this stuff. So Adam and Eve are in
the garden of beaten and after eating the apple or
whatever they help fruit.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It was probably a ran.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
God comes down and now punishes Adam and Eve. And
as you know, Jews were the first, the first people
to be to declare a single God. And we know
that yes monotheism, And so here is the question. Decides
to punish where's this going Adam and Eve? And what
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he does is produce lobster and pork. And that was
the greatest punishment.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
He said, Hey, listen up, I hope that I hope
you enjoyed that pomegranate because now you can't eat this.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yeah, it was yeah, not really.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
A punishment as much as the natural repercussions of their rebellion.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well yeah, but you know pain in childhood, the childbirth
child biln. You had pain in childhood feats you and
that's different. And man had the labor now for his nutrients,
he had to label he had labor for.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
The belief is that it was a perfect system. There
wasn't even any need for rain because everything was a
closed system.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And people could eat lobster and pork chops. Uh, and
it didn't matter who or what you were.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Actually, there's a there is some belief that there wasn't
any eating of animals.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Before the curse.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Vegetarian God, there was no need for it, vegetarian there
are The animals on the planet at that time were
simply to be enjoyed for what do I look.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Like, Deborah Mark?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Come on, no, no, all right, no, not even a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Why don't we take a break and come back as
free whoppers?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Free whoppers?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And that's serious and Halloween treats and we actually are
going to.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Go through these Halloween is popping up earlier and earlier.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
It's it's oh, I just saw a bunch of Halloween
stuff at Costco.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
It's they've broken open with Halloween and what is it?
Are you going to get that giant skeleton with fifteen
foot tall skeleton? Yeah? Yeah, weather about three hundred dollars,
aren't they You can afford it. It'd look good at
your new house.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Ummmmm.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
You could put an anti Trump sign on it.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I know, you know, I think the HOA may have
a problem with that. You could put a little orange
wig on it. I can put a yameca on it.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Okay, this is an important one free whoppers.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Let that let the actually started on August fifth. It
will go through the eleventh. Burger King is basically celebrating
one year of its Walmart Plus partnership. They're giving away
free whoppers. So do you have Do you have Walmart?
You ever shop a mo Omar?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Really cost? Yeah, just a cost go because there'sn't there
isn't a Walmart close to me.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay, Well, Walmart Plus is their subscription service where you
can have things delivered, among other things, there's a lot
of specialty things that you can get with it. And
so if you are a Walmart Plus member, then you
can get deals at Burger King, such as you know,
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twenty five percent off all orders, all of these things
to their special Walmart Plus members. But you can also
get a free whopper with any purchase once a quarter
using the special code. That's great, but right now they
are celebrating their partnership with a little something extra special.
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And all you do starting on the fifth, like I said,
and going through the eleventh, members of Walmart Plus and
the Royal Perks, which is of course the subscription for
Burger King can get a free Burger King whopper every
day with just a one dollar purchase. So basically, buy
your fries and you can get a free whopper.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Now it's every day.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
That's every day up until the eleventh, right, so they
got a yeah you can still get something. Well it's Monday,
but you can go through today and the weekend just
by being a member of those two things.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
That's mine that's right now is that everybody has to
individually be a member.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
You can't order six of these, No, it's just for yeah,
just for the membership. Yeah, that's unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I love how every time we talk about something that's free,
you are always looking for the loopholes, loopholes. Counselor they're
going trying to figure figure it out, you know, it
reminds me of that W. C. Fields quote where someone
came across him reading the Bible and he was flipping
through pages and someone said, what are you doing? He
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goes looking for loopholes, looking for loopholes.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Funny, Halloween treats are already here. And my favorite Halloween
treat is the same bag of candy corn that I've
had since I was eight years old, because nobody eats
candy corn.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Now hey, I like candy corn.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Fine, you're on your mind, But but Halloween, the treats,
the candies.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
As Amy said.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Going to Costco and getting the fifteen.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Foot tall skeleton, you need your microphone. It's funny how
we always you got me.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It's funny how we always complain about coming earlier each year.
And then you know, like the fall drinks for all
the fall flavors that come out earlier, but more and
more Halloween in every way is coming out earlier and earlier.
So now here we are in August, and you've got
these partnerships, food partnerships that are all over the place.
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So a couple of weeks ago you had a partnership
with the television show Wednesday, which I think just launched
the other day on the sixth, so that the new
season of Wednesday. Well, you know the image that they
have the mascot for Wendy's is the little redhead with
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you know, pony tails and whatnot. Well, they switched out
that logo to Wednesday Adams in purple, white and black,
and then they had a special meal. Still has the
meal going on now, but that came out. Now you've
got Betty Crocker just brought back a fa favorite for Halloween.
So they've kind of repackaged these baking mixes. In this
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particular case, it's a black cake, a chocolate cake.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
How about the candies, you know those huge bags of
candies you buy, you know, ten pounds worth or you
three dollars at Costco?
Speaker 1 (11:17):
What about them? No, are they out yet?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Oh there's many places that have started putting that stuff out,
but it always starts with these partnerships first, and they
kind of go into where they start clearing off the
aisles for candy. Candy although important, is not going to
be You're not going to get your candy in August.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, that's the question.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
It's really going to be baked goods, crafting goods, decorations.
These are the things I've already seen the decorations that
are out.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
So we're talking Halloween starting three months out, because we're
at the beginning of August and it goes August, all
of September, all of October, and then of course Halloween hits.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
But most people like to decorate their house for Halloween
pretty early. I mean, our house quite honestly, is decorated
kind of Halloween themed year round. It's just the things
that we like on our mantle right now. Dead bodies, yes,
just rotting corpses, no, but the gargoyles from the stretching
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room at Disneyland and the Hunted Mansion, got those with
candles in them on I have one of the busts
that follow you. We have those. I love ravens and
crows and have those all over the place. So I
like those things, and I'm always shopping for them year round.
But I'm constantly amazed how much earlier these things are
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coming out. In the food category, getting these specialty foods
and the specialty packages are already in stores right now
for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
And for those of you who, of course will never
go to Neil's house because you'll never be invited, it
really is interesting. I mean Neil, especially Halloween when he
decorates Man.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
He goes balls to the wall on this one. Yeah,
I hadn't for a while. It's funny. Having a kid
makes it more difficult. But I think this year I
will be doing a full blown hunted mansion thing.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Oh yeah, it's what he does. What he does is
pretty tremendous.